Gowdy Announces Official Investigation into FBI’s Handling of Hillary’s Emails

House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia announced on Tuesday that they will be opening a joint investigation into the FBI’s handling of the 2016 Clinton email investigation.

“Decisions made by the Department of Justice in 2016 have led to a host of outstanding questions that must be answered,” the Republican lawmakers said in a joint statement.

Included in the many issues they identified were the “FBI’s decision to appropriate full decision making in respect to charging or not charging Secretary Clinton to the FBI rather than the DOJ” as well as the “FBI’s timeline in respect to charging decisions.”

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“The Committees will review these decisions and others to better understand the reasoning behind how certain conclusions were drawn,” they added.

“Congress has a constitutional duty to preserve the integrity of our justice system by ensuring transparency and accountability of actions taken,” the chairmen said.

As reported by The Daily Caller, the FBI released documents in October showing that former FBI Director James Comey drafted a letter recommending the FBI not bring charges against Hillary Clinton in regard to the email probe that happened months before the bureau conducted interviews with key witnesses — including Clinton.

Still, while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Comey denied that he had any involvement in deciding Clinton’s fate before she was interview on July 2, 2016 by a team of FBI agents and a prosecutor.

“All I can do is tell you again, the decision was made after that because I didn’t know what was going to happen in that interview,” Comey said.

“(Comey’s) ostensible reason for taking that decision away from the Department of Justice was that meeting on the tarmac (between Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch),” Gowdy said. “But yet a month and a half earlier he is memorializing a decision he’s already made.”